So, I am starting as Ruby Developer at Savvii

Monday (5th of JuliAugust) I am starting at the startup Savvii. To
be part of the team that wants to bring you the very best WordPress
hosting in the Netherlands.

I am going to develop the software for the back end: program the robots that
do all the magic behind-the-scenes work.

Because I am a Ruby-developer, I'll do this in Ruby. We
needs some technical things like long-running threads and asynchronous
workers and stuff, which makes Ruby (and Rails) one of the best
candidates. I'll be blogging more about the technical stuff on our yet-to-go-online blog. And probably here too.

WAT!? You be doing WordPress-development?

Probably a little, but my task is
to get the back end-software running, which is building stuff like CRMs, billing gateways, provisioning APIs and whatnot.
My fellow-programmer is the main PHP-and WordPress-developer. But I will certainly dive into WordPress now
and again to make it play nicely with all the Ruby back ends.

But didn't you say you hate WordPress, Drupal and all that other PHP-stuff?

Nope. Apparently a lot of people seem to think that I am "against"
Drupal, WordPress or even PHP in general. On contrary: I like them a
lot. And very often advise people to use this software for their
websites.

I merely think that such CMSes have their place and cases, but are often abused
in cases (and projects) where they fit poorly: the right tool for the
job. Apparently many people read that as "haters gonna hate". I don't.
Hate.

What about your own company?

I'll be putting my all my focus on Savvii, on making it
a great hoster. But I expect to go back to some small side-projects once we are
moving. Not sure how it will combine, but time will learn.
Berk.es will continue to exist, albeit
dormant for a while.

About the author: Bèr Kessels is an experienced webdeveloper with a great passion for
technology and Open Source. A golden combination to implement that technology in a good and efficient
way. Follow @berkes on Twitter. Or read more about Bèr.